"What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure."

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Ed Ayres

#Civilization Quotes #Culture Quotes #Speed Quotes

“So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.”
“This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.”
“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
“Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.”
“As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.”

Source : "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.
“The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naÃ¯vetÃ© belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.”
“When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.”

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